Tag: matt fitzgerald

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As a Matt Fitzgerald fangirl, I snapped up How Bad Do You Want It? as soon as it hit the shelves in 2015. It’s been on my nightstand ever since. And when Lindsey Hein’s book club picked it up recently, I realized a lot of people haven’t read it yet. And you should.

Subtitled “mastering the psychology of mind over muscle,” How Bad is a collection of sports stories combined with “psychobiological” research. Matt uses the format to share habits and tactics the rest of us can use to cultivate our own mental strength. Read more >>

If, like me, you suffer from a lifetime overload of dietary (mis)information, but love to read about running and food and science, then Matt Fitzgerald’s latest book The Endurance Diet will be a refreshing read. Fitzgerald travels the world, examining the diets of elite endurance athletes, and concludes — perhaps unsurprisingly — that carbs are the basis of virtually all elite endurance athletes’ diets. Furthermore, elite athletes don’t restrict calories, food groups, or macronutrients; they eat what they need to perform. Read more >>

This morning, 57.7 percent of me was water. My resting heart rate was 57. And I averaged 184 steps per minute on my run.

Fitness tracking and wearables are a huge market, and you might even have a device on your holiday wish-list. Pretty likely when I mentioned resting HR, you thought about checking yours on the device on your wrist.

I’m a data junkie: most of my training is heart-rate based, and I have a Garmin Forerunner 35 plus a Garmin Index Smart Scale. But a lot of that data is logged, recorded, archived … and never used for anything.

So what the heck do all these numbers mean, and which ones matter? I talked to two guys named Matt who helped me sort through the data I’m collecting to help make me and YOU better runners.